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Monday, September 23, 2013

I Choose Love

The Book of Just a Little Lovin' (2013 Denmark run) is now available. The editors Casper Gronemann and Claus Raasted have collected experiences and analysises from players and organizers of the larp. A PDF version can be downloaded here. At the very end of the book we find this beautiful reflection by Signe Løndahl Hertel:

What happened in those days of august 2013?

What did we witness?

Was it a love story?

A tragedy?

An elegy?

Was it ours?

Or was it theirs?

In those days I was forced to love, to lose, to be scared and be brave.

I was forced to stumble and let someone else pick me up, accepting

their support ‘till the day I die. I was forced to put my faith in others

in a way I have only dared to put my faith in few.

This story we witnessed with tears in our eyes, stones in our chests,

shivering bodies and beating hearts.

I have never felt so violently confronted with every weakness in me,

everyone one which I have always tried to shed and to hide. Yet now

I feel more strong, more complete, more beautiful than ever.

As if having witnessed this I dare look life straight in the face saying